One of my favorites, a deep exploration of the Heideggerean concept of authenticity, is Woody Allen's Another Woman. How many protagonists in mainstream films are philosophers (Gena Rowlands plays one here)? Sander Lee has an insightful chapter on it in his book on Woody Allen.
There is also a nice piece on Eternal Sunshine and Nietzsche's Eternal Return in the 2007 Volume 11 of Film and Philosophy.
"For beauty is the beginning of terror we are still able to bear, and why we love it so is because it so serenely disdains to destroy us" Rilke's First Duino Elegy
Daniel Shaw
Professor of Philosophy and Film
Lock Haven University
Managing Editor, Film and Philosophy
website: www.lhup.edu/dshaw
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From: Film-Philosophy Salon on behalf of Becky Vartabedian
Sent: Sun 3/25/2007 2:47 PM
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Subject: Re: Explicit deep philosophy in movies
Also recommended: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (as Christopher Grau has recently written in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the Morality of Memory" in the December 06 issue of the Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism) & Stranger than Fiction, which deals well with a variety of philosophical themes.
On 3/25/07, Nicola Hopkins <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Linklater's films esp Waking Life, Before Sunrise/Sunset
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